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From: jwz@LUCID.COM (Jamie Zawinski)
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In message <9010221540.AA05018@scenic.scenic.wa.com> Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>
> I can't believe that people are doing stuff like this. All this effort
> to automate something that could be fixed by much more minimal attention
> to detail, and at the same time removing interoperability with existing
> tools. Is this really what GNU is spawning ?

1: It is not uncommon to invest a nontrivial amount of time in a program that
   will save a user a small amount of time / need for attention to detail.

2: In this particular case, the amount of time invested was hardly nontrivial.

3: I do not consider compatibility with existing tools which are BAD tools to
   necessarily be a desirable thing, especially when such compatibility would
   damage the functionality of the new tool.

4: I doubt gnu-emacs-announce is the right place for you to have CCed your
   flame.

		-- Jamie